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The Battle in Bear Country » Sullivan v Wilson: Is Civil Marriage for Gay Couples Good for Society?

The University of Idaho hosted a public debate, to a crowd of over 800, on February 27, 2013. The debate was participated in by Andrew Sullivan, blogger and former senior editor of The Atlantic, and Douglas Wilson, pastor of Christ Church of Moscow, ID, author and educator. The topic of the debate: Is Civil Marriage for Gay Couples Good for Society?

The first response was posted on the night of the debate over at First Things, by Dr. Peter J Leithart of Trinity House Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, and Cultural Studies in Birmingham, AL.

Mr. Sullivan has also blogged his response over at The Dish. Ironically, Sullivan has reused an image, that he posted in the Atlantic back in 2009, of a Darwin poster that riffs on (or perhaps rips off) the ubiquitous Obama “Hope” poster design by Shepard Fairey.

One might state the basic premise, of the Darwinian Theory of Evolution, by saying, “the universe doesn’t care.” Nature “selects” which genetic variation survives based on that host species’ prowess in the struggle for existence. Namely, a given species’ ability to obtain sustenance and further its genetic legacy through procreation. Last I checked, same-sex couplings of human beings do not result in offspring. So one might ask, how evolved are homophiliacs? Can we agree to leave Darwin out of this? Evolutionists have been moving on past the “third leg of neo-atheism” for years.

Denny Burk, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Boyce College, has a couple articles regarding this debate: Why he thought Pastor Wilson lost and Is Polygamy, Bestiality, Pedophilia, and Necrophila the logical conclusion in the marriage rights debate
03/10/2013
In an effort to maintain this post, as what Pastor Doug Wilson described as a clearing house article for the Wilson v Sullivan debate and the ongoing “gay marriage” discussion, I am adding a couple of links from Alastair Roberts as an addendum to the above-resources.